Improvement in composition rolls for clothes-wringers



N tnid tatw WILLIAMQIINRY TOWERS, or BOSTON, MAssAoHusinus.-

Letters .Patent No. 104,514, dated J'une 2l, lSTO.

IMPROVEMENT COMPOSITIN ROLLS POR CLOTHES-WRING-ERS. Y

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

` To all to whom these presents shall come:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY Towuns, of

= Boston, in the county-of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have made an Invention of a new v and useful Manufacture of Clothes wringer Rolls; and

` cl1eapness, durability, lightness, and eii'icienoy iu the rolls of clotbes-wringexs, and, to this end, -I compose ,the outer body or jacket of such' objects of a textile, woven, or fibrous material, permeated or treated with a suitable impervious material or compound, to lrender it proof against saturation by moisture, the sub- 'stance I- prefer to employ for the purpose being a `thick fe1t,as giving the best results, although I by no means intend to confine myself to this material.

T lie drawing' 'represents 'one of the rollers of a clothes-winger, as composed of a series of continuous rings, a a, 85e., slipped upon a shaftor mandrel, b, and suitably confined thereto, in vsuch manner as to best resist the torsion to which it is subject.

The felt of which the rings a a, Ste., are composed is saturated or treated, as before stated, with a suitableimpervious compound, t0 render it water-proof.

To water-proof my felt-rolls, I saturate the goods withI parafiinc, when held in a solution by heat or any well known solvent, or by a rubber cement.

I do not confine myself to the mode last described, of applying a fibrous or textile material to a shaft, as various modes may be adopted, all looking to the same' result.

I have adopted the rings of felt, in th'e present instance, to demonstrate one practical manner of carryl ing ont my ideas. -Y

Claim.

I claim as my invention- A roll for clothes-wringers, composcdof a suitable l shaft, and an outer jacket or body, of 'a textile or iibrous material, or felt, such body being saturated or treated with animpervious compound, and the whole being produced as and for the purpose explained;

WM. H. TOWERS.

Witnesses:

FRED. CURTIS, EDWARD GRIFFITH. l 

